At eight o'clock in the morning following the day that I arrived in Puerto Montt, I boarded the steamer Chacao in a blinding downpour of rain with a ticket for Ancud which cost about $1.
The street became a veritable river and owing to the violence of the downpour the street cars stopped running.
Although the sky had now broken its promise shamefully and the downpour continued, Tricotrin found nothing to complain of.
It was impossible to reason with him, and he launched the most frightful denunciation at his nephew for an hour, when the abatement of the downpour permitted him to depart.
It is black dark, with a heavy continuous downpour of rain.
The troop 'fatigue men' turn out to their duties, and traffic to the cooking-galleys goes on, even under the unceasing downpour that falls on us.
The downpour lasted for perhaps twelve minutes; then it ceased as suddenly as it had begun--as suddenly as though a tap had been turned off up aloft--and we had an opportunity once more to look around us.
I arrived here yesterday evening in a torrential downpourof rain, which makes travelling extremely unpleasant.
After trudging, mostly uphill, in a downpour of rain, we reached a place called Guise at 2 A.
The wind drove the rain before it in glistening gray sheets, the steady drumming of the downpour accompanied the click of meeting ivory balls and the occasional speech of the players.
It certainly was raining, raining violently and steadily, a graydownpour from a gray sky.
Suddenly it began to rain, a downpour so violent that it served in a measure to flatten down the crests of the waves.
The searchlight showed a waste of heaving waters and a downpour of rain, that fell on the top of the canopy as though it would beat it down about the heads of the occupants of the craft.
The Tiger bowed over his saddle, and kept his gray hair bared to a torrential downpour while her carriage passed on.
When he had stirred Driscoll out of his dejection enough to make him want to fight, he deigned to clear the atmosphere of that befogging downpour in Texas.
And after that no sound broke upon the pelting downpour save the slight rustle of the boy's pen traveling over the paper.
In the wet season they grow into the nimbus and stratus types that precede a sudden downpour of water or a furious hailstorm.
A light shower fell at sunset, a typical late-afternoon downpourso characteristic of the tropics.
The vision passed before her eyes like a vague and distant dream, while she listened to the approaching thunders that filled the air, sultry to bursting-point, while she gazed at the downpour that followed.
This had been followed by a sudden dash of rain, and for a few minutes they had hoped that the worst of the downpour would pass to the south of them.
Also, the wind was beginning to blow, showing that the downpour was liable to become worse.
But before we had marched a mile, the low clouds soaked us with such a downpour as I had seldom seen of a July morning near Rome.
As the rain increased to a downpour we wriggled and squirmed through the hole, barely squeezing ourselves in, and found the jar a bit dusty but dry and comfortable.
He was both late and wet when he reached school, and his brow was more clouded than the sky; but it cleared wonderfully when a terrific downpour began shortly after he took his seat.
As it stood there the downpour moderated, and finally settled into a gentle shower.
He put aside all the care and sadness of the world; he surrendered what little dignity the downpour had left him, and throwing back his head, he bellowed with laughter.
He clambered in beside Mrs. Cane and sat helplessly in the downpour while Mr. Cane and the Village President struggled with the ungainly top.
Clotilde was taken from him in a heavy downpour and trailing of mists.
True, there had been rain the day before, starting a general thaw, but none of the downpour had soaked through the outer crust of the tunnel to the working force inside and no extra labor had devolved on the pumps.
Jack had the dry side this time, and went on his way rejoicing, but the head of the house of Breen caught the downpour, and a very wet downpour it was.
The easy rain of two days ended in a heavy downpour and a deluge of water on the mountainside above.
In a lull of actual downpour we made an excursion to Kolashin, four hours away, passing through the scene of the defeat of Mehemet Ali Pasha.
Danilograd, to be caught in another downpour an hour later.
She was bustling about with feverish anxiety now, for she had felt a spot of rain, and it was too dreadful to think what might happen if a downpour began before their belongings could be got under shelter.
But at that moment there was a crackle of thunder right above their heads, a blaze of lightning, and then a downpour of rain, as if the roll of the thunder had opened the floodgates of the clouds.
For a second the gigantic beast stood there, with one paw uplifted, its golden-tawny bulk seeming to quiver in the downpour of intense sunlight.
On more than one occasion of torrential downpour the struggle had almost seemed to hang for a while in doubt.
And still there was nothing before them and about them but the endless succession of slender gray stems and the downpour of that sinister rosy light.
We left Cambridge at seven this morning in a downpour of rain, that seemed to prophesy a hopelessly wet day.
The banks are low and pretty, but little we saw of their beauty that morning for the dense mist caused by the downpour of rain.
In a downpourof tropical rain we reached the wharf.
Only practised ears could have detected under the steady downpour of rain, the deep roar of the canyon and the reverberation of the thunder, the hoof beats of a stumbling horse.
That men could find their way with every possibility of landmark and sight blotted out and nothing of sound above the downpour except the tumultuous roar of the Turkey which they were following, was to Kate a mystery of mysteries.
In some places the corn is wilting through lack of moisture, and all spring crops will be light unless there is a heavy downpour within the next few days.
The birds chirped and sang throughout the downpour and the cattle pastured as if they found it refreshing.
The downpour of rain a few days ago delayed seeding, so that I had time to look about me while the miracles of nature were being performed.
He stood for a time, the two women watching him as the downpour washed across his cheeks.
Would that the squalls could wash all of it clean, the way a downpour purged the foul straw and offal from a cobblestone London street.
